You may find this clue to be hard if you’ve never played the Super Mario games. Coming from the March 29, 2025 edition of the NYT Mini Crossword puzzle is the clue Bowser and King Boo for the down section. Bowser is the main antagonist of the Super Mario series. Meanwhile King Boo is one of the underlings serving under Bowser and it is one giant ghost enemy.
What Bowser and King Boo are called
They are ENEMIES of Mario, which is also the answer. Bowser has been there from the very beginning and is always kidnapping the princess. King Boo on the otherhand appeared much later and is a very hard enemy to tackle since you can’t kill it in the traditional way. By traditional, we mean stomping on it. It’s a ghost that you have to outrun and make sure that it doesn’t touch you. These are just two of the more iconic Mario enemies in the series.
